Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-09-23
DAKOTA CONVERSATIONS

DAKOTA CONVERSATIONS
Daniel Flynn has been appointed post-
master at Mandan.
A p~ostoffice has been established at
Horsehead, Fell River county,
The trial in the Reeser elopement case
at Frankfort was dismissed, no one
prosecuting.
Harvest excursionists have reecAed
Wstertown, Huron and Canton in large
numbers from the states.
d. l.. Power. agent of the Chicago and
North estern railroad at Centrevllie,
has besn transferred to Groton.
The Mlwankee railroad company is
credited by the Press with an intention
to build q $4,000 depot at Sioux Fails.
The Bsadle county tair began at
Huron Wednesday with good exhibits
in ell departments, ESPECIALLY in the line
of stock.
The fall term of the Redfeld college
opened Wednesday in temporary quar-
ters, pending the completion of the COL
leRe edlfice.
Sioux Falls and Elk Point will send
militia companies to the Sioux City corn
palace and possibly Mitchell, Flsndrau
and Huron.
The Father Mathew temperance aocie-
ty of the Catholic church at Fargo will
be permanently organized Oct. 10, Father
Matthew's day.
Centreville is filling so rapidly that
mot q building is to be had for rent.
Many are compelled in consequence to
live at the hotels.
Charley Magil, yardman OF the Mani
toba, at Fargo. IN jumping On an engine
slipped and one OF the wheels crushed
tho toes of his right foot.
The knights OF labor have Invited
Father Collins, of the Catholic church
at Fargo, to address them some evening
soon and he has accepted.
Albertson & Bandy are pressing Aa1
straw in Broohings county. They take
their press to the farmers honses and
pay 50 a ton for the straw.
Prairie fires did a large amount oil
damage Tuesday a few miles south o.
Aberdeen. Farmers lost q large amount
OF grain end other property.
A term of court will be begun in
Brookings county October s1ta. That
takes the lawyers by surprise, as they
lwere not expecting it until November.
The Sphinx county fair opened Al
Ashton Wednesday with q fair .atten-
dance. Delegate Clifford and Capt,
Hansey, Of Aberdeen, delivered addresses
The three days fair Of the Dsue
county agricultural society, at Gary
closed Saturday evening and proved {
brilliant success. There we're owe 2Ot
entries.
State Secretary Williams, OF th,
Young Mems Christian association o
Minnesota, will hold an institute at the
hall of the association in Fargo early il
OCTOBER
There is some prospects that arrange
ments will be made by the Oongrega
slonal society at Bookings whereby
Prot. Updyke, OF the agricultural col
lege, will become their minister.
The labor societies are perfeetins thei,
arrangements to receive Cardinal Glib
bons when he passes through Fargo or
his way to Portland, Oregon. to confer
the pallium on n or two priests OF th.
Pacific slope.
Ole Kneutson, the boy thief who made
such wholesale work OF stealing arouni
Volga some weeks ago, was brought be-
fore the probate judge, and on petitlor
OF his uncle, was sent TO Bismarck, wher,
he will be placed in the reform school.
The bucket shop of Geo. E. Phelps
90, Of Sioux Falls. is involved ia som
sort of financial difficulty. The shop ii
closed and Mr.. Phelps is in Minneapoli.
in conference with Pressey, Wheeler 4
Co., through whom he has been opera
ting.
Two heavily loaded harvest exoursio,
trains from eastern Iowa, WISCONSIN ans
Illinois, reached Canton oyer the Mil
waukee road Wednesday afternoon,
About q hundred land seekers stopped
in Canton and will circulate through
ont southern Dakota from that city.
Col. FL. N. Brown, the discharged
militia colonel, was in Larimore Saturda,
and does not feel at all distheartened b,
his discharge, though regretting tn,
talk that has been made about the mat
ter. He feels that Gov. Church mad
q great mistake, based on misinforma
ltion